The Meaning of Liff
The Meaning of Liff (The Deeper Meaning of Liff) is the title of a humorous lexicon from 1983 by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd , which contains a selection of place names that define states, things or feelings for which it is in the English language there is / was no name yet. The book was written in September 1982 during the two authors' stay on the island of Corfu and was published by Pan Books in 1983 .
reception
The book did not match The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , but it did make it to number 4 on the Sunday Times bestseller list and received almost exclusively good reviews - although the authors were often accused of plagiarism. The British humorist Paul Jennings had the same idea in his article Ware, Wye and Watford in the 1950s . 1990 appeared The Deeper Meaning of Liff , the words collection from The Meaning of Liff added and was equipped with illustrations.
backgrounds
- In Germany in 1992 an adaptation of the book called Der deeper Sinn des Labenz by Sven Böttcher was published , which combines the translated definitions with place names that have an adequate comic effect in German-speaking countries.
- Almost simultaneously with The Meaning of Liff also appeared Monty Python film The Meaning of Life (English. The Meaning of Life ), which contains in its title display a brief allusion. The "LIFF" can be seen briefly before a lightning bolt adds the missing line to a "LIFE".